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Which made up genocides would those be?
Okay let's break this down into the three unrelated parts:
Which genocides? Sounds to me like you know that the genocides you're referring to actually have huge amounts of evidence, so you're intentionally avoiding saying which specifically to avoid scrutiny.
Most genocides ever committed? The country has only existed since 1776, and humans have been committing genocide for a hell of a lot longer than that.
What the hell is that meant to mean? Who is "they"? None of what? What makes a journalist's investigation "authentic"?
Nonono, you've passed the point of getting off that ride.
What's happened here is you came in spouting absolute bullshit with nothing to back it up. Then you got called out for it by this "hipster", and realising that, you're trying to back out by pretending you never wanted to have this conversation in the first place.
Now you're doing the internet equivalent of putting your fingers in your ears and yelling LALALA to convince yourself you're right, and that you're not giving your government a free pass to commit genocide, it's just those damn westerners trying to "make you have morals" and "form sentences that actually mean something".
To be fair more people died from the diseases brought by the settlers.
Apparently that is false. While disease did kill some, as well as early settlers, the rest was actual murder.
Unless you could link a credible source it's hard to accept this as anything more than a mere opinion
https://www.history.com/news/native-americans-genocide-united-states
You can start the journey of learning the truth here. There are lots of sources of info ( if you ignore Canada/ USAs own accounts in some instances because of whitewashing history) . Also the churches reporting many died of germs from early settlers is a fake after take, because in that era they had no concept of germ theory, that discovery came later.
There's very less evidence to support that. I can only recall one incident where a blanket infected with small pox was handed out to a tribe and the officer who did that was later severely reprimanded.
But anyhow, I am not trying to downplay the ill intent of European settlers, I will just quote this here "history is written by victors". The blanket incident is all I recall about deliberate disease spreading. who really knows? How many hundreds of such incidents went unreported?